Vehicle-spring



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J. Gr. PARSONS.

VEHICLE SPMNG.

No. 266,047. Patented Oct. 17, 1882..

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Unire freres Artnr rrr@ JOHN G. PARSONS, OF OSHKOSH, WIISCONSIN.

VEHlCLE-SPRING.

SPECIFICATION formingv part oi Letters Patent No. 266,047, dated October 1*?, 1882,

Application filed May 18,1882. (No model.) I

To all whom t6 may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN G. IARsONS, of Oshkosh, in the county of NVinnebago, and -in the State ot' Wisconsin', have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle- Springs; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

lvlyinvention relates to vehicle-springs; and it consists in combining two supplemental springs with each of the semi-elliptic crosssprings of a' side-har wagon.

In the drawings, Figure l is a top view of my invention. Fig. 2 is an end view, and Fig. 3 is a bottom view.

A is a plate, which I make in the form of two squares joined at one corner. The center of this plate forms a long bearing for the semielliptic cross-spring B, While its wings c c form bearings for the end of short springs O, these lutter pointing in different directionsi'rom each other and their free ends projecting up and out to receive the platform or body l), the ends of the spring B being shackled to the side short semielliptie springs with the long semielliptic cross-spring, and I avoid the short jerky motion that is so common to this style ofA spring, for thi-y are necessarily secured to their bearing-plates centrally, and therefore they lose about one-third ot' their length, While my springs are secured to their bearing-plate each to an opposite `side ot' its longitudinal center, and consequently I can have a much greater length of spring-about two incheson each side, which makes a vast dea-l ot' dif- .ference in the oomfortttbleness ot' the vehicles, and my half-springs have all the steadying effeet ot' the pnir of whole springs that have hitherto been employed.

/Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure hy Letters Patent, is

l. The combination, with one of the main semi-elliptic crosssprings ot' a. side-har wagon, otl two supplemental springs attached at one end to a bearing-plate in the cerner ot' the main cross-spring, said supplementary springs eX- tending in different directions from each other, as set forth.

2. The combination, willi spring B, of supplementary springs O O and plate A, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand on this 14th day ot' April, 1882,'in the presence ot' two witnesses.

JOHN Gr. PARSONS.

l Witnesses:

S. S, S'roufr, HAROLD G. UNnERWooD. 

